Jonathan Huberdeau’s blessure is worse than anticipated as he awaits his return to the game. He has been struggling with a lot of injuries.

Huberdeau, a winger with the Calgary Flames ice hockey team, has had a string of injuries in recent years and has had very little time to recover from them. Consequently, he continues to sustain injuries, which has kept him out for several consecutive days.

The 29-year-old athlete suffered a blessure blow in an NHL game against the New York Islanders on Tuesday, November 8, and Huberdeau was not included on the game roster to play against the Devils the day after. 

Initial reports by Wes Gilbertson of the Calgary Sun stated that Huberdeau would miss the November 9 game against The New Jersey Devils due to a minor foot injury and had a good chance of returning to the next round.

However, he also didn’t play in the team’s subsequent two games, Friday’s matchup with the Boston Bruins and Sunday’s contest against the Winnipeg Jets. And, likely, Huberdeau won’t be able to play in Monday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings, but he is expected to be back by then.

Flames Expect Jonathan Huberdeau To Return Monday, Upper-body Still Sore

According to reports, Jonathan Huberdeau is expected to return to a game on Monday, but his upper body is yet to recover fully.

He has been sidelined for three games in a row following a knock on his left foot he suffered on November 8 against the Islanders. On November 12, when the Jets came to town, Huberdeau sat out for the third consecutive game.

It was reported earlier this week by Calgary Sun that the Flames forward was seen wearing a walking cast. However, initially, they said the injury was in his upper body tissue.

Huberdeau is fortunate not to have yet been a victim of long-term injury, which kept him sidelined for an extended period. The longest time he was sidelined due to an injury was in May 2015. Then, he missed 2-4 weeks because of a spleen injury.

Regardless, Huberdeau didn’t skate on Sunday against the Jets. However, the Flames are optimistic that their left winger will return on Monday when they take on the Los Angeles Kings and hope he will help the team to end the miserable run of seven defeats in a row.

And it is not that the Calgary Flames only tasted defeat after Huberdeau was left out of the squad because of the upper body injury, Flames last win was on October 26 against the Penguins. 

Despite making a good start, the Huberdeau squad got off to a strong start in this season’s NHL campaign with five consecutive wins, and they have failed to win any of their past seven games.

Huberdeau Has Been Available For 11 of 14 Games This Season

Jonathan Huberdeau, 29, has played games this season in NHL for Calgary Flames. He is one of their best performers in assists per game stat.

Besides, the winger also had a good preseason as his team, Flames, won and lost three. Huberdeau played in league with Florida Panthers for the past nine seasons before moving to Calgary early this season.

Huberdeau signed for the Flames on August 3 on a record-breaking deal. The two parties agreed on an $84 million contract over eight years, the most significant contract in the club’s history, even bigger than the $44.625 million deal inked by Sean Monahan in 2016.

In his debut season with the Flames, the Canadian forward has recorded one goal and five assists throughout 11 games played with Calgary. He had played all 11 games, six preseason games, and five NHL games before he was injured on November 8.

Following his injury on his left foot, Huberdeau was unable to stand on a skate and has missed back-to-back games so far against the Devils, the Bruins, and the Jets. But the Flames have high hope that the 29-year-old would return against the Kings on Monday, November 14.